Hey DUers: Post a pic of the city you live in!!! (2nd album)

[ConcernedCanuk]

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Not a whine, but observe, I got 51 of the last 53 posts dowloaded, on dial-up here with an old P1

- took 15 minutes for the page to load ! !

- could we make this "Album Two" for us poor people on dial-up ?

Nice Pix tho !!

- and you bet, after waiting that long for the page to load, I saved the damm thing !

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and yah, I'll be posting some pics of my own city shortly - -

(but NOT 100, 200, and 300k ! )

Thanx

[Syrinx]

1. Tuscaloosa, AL

Here's one from 1936 by Walker Evans. You can buy the print for $13,500.



Here's Bryant-Denny Stadium, home of the Crimson Tide!



And here's a picture of a nice man rescuing a little girl after her mobile home was destroyed by a tornado.



And here's the Mercedes-Benz factory.

[midnight armadillo]

2. Boston, MA

Ok, I live just outside, but here's Boston Common and the State House:

[JCMach1]

3. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The Harbor


The Blue Souq (my mom and dad in the picture)


Part of the skyline

[Catch22Dem]

4. Tulsa

The building on the far left was designed by the same man who designed the World Trade Center. It's specs are identical, from what I understand, and it's size is exactly 50%.

[NJCher]

5. West Orange, NJ

"What exit am I?"



Here's Thomas Edison's movie studio, called the "Black Maria:"



It is probably about one mile from where I live.

This is a pic of a golf course just around the corner:




Cher

[Suziq]

35. Exit 135 here

:hippie:

[Edge]

6. My city....Morris, Minnesota!

Here's a picture of the Science Building where I have my geology classes--note the observatory on the far left, chemistry and biology department on the right side:


Here's the sign that welcomes you to my campus (science building in background):


Here's a pic of Atlantic Avenue(our Main Street) here in Morris:


Here's the building where the art majors study in:


Our student center:


Nice liberal arts campus we have, eh? :)

[Snow]

7. Okay -

Here're a couple...




Anybody care to take a guess where this place is? just from the looks, that is?

[Archae]

9. Hmmm...

Any "class M" planet Kirk and Spock visited? :-)

[Cat Atomic]

16. Hey- I know Altadena.

I used to live in Sierra Madre. :)

:hi:

[hellhathnofury]

22. I'm a Pasadenan.

[Snow]

41. Hey, Pasadenan....

Our place doesn't look like a major metropolitan area, was the subtle point I was after.....I'm a recent migrant, and what surprised me the most about LA is how much natural beauty there is. We have three hikes to waterfalls within a 10 minute drive of our house.
You should come to the DU gatherings, cynic - although I've made only one. I think there's 2 more Altadena DUers. :hi:

[hellhathnofury]

44. We do have some nice nature areas if you look for them, Eaton Canyon etc.

The LA area in general doesn't blow me away with it's natural beauty, and I'm a native, to much brown and concrete, plus the smog. The really nice thing about Pasadena is the cultural opportunities and educational facilities, excluding the public schools (I can't wait to graduate, I'm a PHS senior). CalTech, Norton Simon, Asian Pacific mueseum, Descanso Gardens, Rose Bowl; we only play 2nd fiddle to LA and that's great. I can't imagine living someplace that didn't have it's own identity. PM about the next meeting and I'll be sure to come.

[Archae]

8. Sheboygan, Wisconsin

7th safest city in the US.

Here's our courthouse:



The Sheboygan museum:



Sheboygan County was established on December 17, 1838 and is located in Eastern Wisconsin on the western shores of Lake Michigan. Sheboygan County consists of 15 townships, 10 villages and 3 cities with a land area of 513.7 square miles and a population of 112,640 as of 2000. The county is surrounded by 5 other counties: Manitowoc County to the north, Calumet County to the north west, Fond Du Lac County to the west, Washington County to the south west and Ozaukee County to the south.

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. North Bay, Ontario here - (finally)

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http://www.city.north-bay.on.ca/gallery/graphics/image7!t.jpg


LARGE pix of them thumbnails and more at http://www.city.north-bay.on.ca/gallery/index.htm

[corporatewhore]

24. Purty Purty pic !!

[ConcernedCanuk]

25. Believe that I took that with a $10 throwaway camera !!!

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Was one of a series of seven



Full size pix at http://groups.msn.com/Dcamper/yourname.msnw . .

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[La_Serpiente]

11. Honolulu, HI

Honolulu





Honolulu during New Years



anti-war protest



Waikiki at Night

[Kamika]

29. God..

I'd like to live there

[Dirk39]

Are you jealous?

This is, what I did see, looking out of my window for many years, only 10 minutes away from the center of the city.

This isn't a small town, this is a 2 million people town, once among the 3 biggest trade-cities in the universe, still one of the biggest, I guess.

But in case, you need a reason to liberate us, I deliver:
Alert! Underage children in a liberal city:



Hello from Hamburg, Germany: we gave you the Beatles, and the name for trash to eat,
Dirk

[Ediacara]

12. Bozeman, Montana

[Ediacara]

20. More of Bozeman

[DoctorBombay]

13. Redondo Beach, CA

This is the beach I live five blocks from and walk to:



Veteran's Park:



Sunset at the Pier:



Pier and Harbor:

[Sapphocrat]

19. Mmm, Redondo...

I sure miss it! (Used to live in Torrance.) And I'll always miss the pier! (For outta-staters: The long, horseshoe-shaped Redondo Beach pier burned to the water in the later 1980s.)

[hellhathnofury]

21. I used to live in Hermosa.

Hermose>Redondo.

My Grandparents still live there.

[caledesi]

14. Tampa, Florida

Right outside my condo.

[Sapphocrat]

15. Los Altos, California

This is from Hidden Villa, in Los Altos Hills. On the apricot orchard where I grew up, not far from this spot, we had a creek -- not anywhere near as big as this one, but with the same sort of "feel" to it. In fact, the hills all around our little "ranch" were just like this:




The foothills look pretty much the way they always have (although tract developments are encroaching steadily on all this natural beauty):





The mind-numbingly clean and safe Main Street of "The Village":





Shumate House, Los Altos Hills (a historic landmark, but very typical rich-folks' abode -- there are lots of "Beverly Hillbillies"-like homes just like this):




And to give you an idea of just what a thrilling town it is, here's an excerpt from a typical week's "Police Blotter" (courtesy of the coma-inducing and irritatingly right-wing local paper, The Los Altos Town Crier):

Aug. 17, 1:21 p.m., 97 Hillview Ave.: A backpack was reported stolen. The two suspects, males 17-18 years old, left in a '99 dark blue Blazer.

Aug. 17, 4:14 p.m., 400 block of Fremont Avenue: A caller reported scratches to his car while in the Pinewood School parking lot.

Saturday, 6:54 p.m., 4800 block of El Camino Real: A resident reported that two male juveniles threw soda onto his vehicle and onto him in the parking lot. The juveniles were driving a blue and white pickup.

Sunday, 6:10 p.m., 700 block of Altos Oaks Drive: Police charged a 56-year-old man with using a dumpster illegally.


P.S. No, I'm not rich -- far from it. My family has lived here since 1948, long before all the rich folks discovered this little piece of paradise. IIRC, Los Altos ranks #2 in home prices in the state, and around #23 in the nation. I wish it were still a little unknown farming community.

[TOhioLiberal]

17. Toledo, Ohio

While I was looking for Toledo, I ran across a picture of...
pResident G.W. Bush*



Trekkerlass

[CanuckAmok]

18. Nanaimo, BC, on Vancouver Island...

http://www.kevinmatz.com/photos/vancouver_island_may_2003/nanaimo/HomeInNanaimo_BastionAtNight



130,000 people, give or take. The city was founded on coal mining, coniferous logging, fishing, and tourism.

Only tourism remains.

100 minutes from Vancouver via car ferry, or 20 minutes by seaplane. Mountains, ocean, all the good stuff, including a natural barrier to Tsunami.

[corporatewhore]

23. best and worst in austin every thing from historic to tacos to owl gods

my favorite swimmin hole barton springs

tacoxpress best tacos ever (i think im in love with maria)

according to our local conspiracy theorist alex jones the frost bank tower was made in image of pagan owl god sybol that is used in occult secret society that w is part of

gov mansion
where tom delays bitch currently resides
also the house dubya thought was to small so he decided to crash at gores place

Jim crows territory (texas senate gallery where tom delay redistricted)

[GOPisEvil]

33. Speaking of tacos...we missed you at breakfast yesterday.

Yummy, yummy! Intelsucks even bought! :D

TacoXpress is good, too...:9

[0rganism]

26. Portland, Oregon

The public park 2 blocks from my house (the photographer must have put this one through a duck crap filter)



Skyline at dawn, seen from the eastside looking west, with the sun reflecting off the KOIN tower



St. John's bridge, westside looking east at daybreak,



Portland totally shuts down whenever we get any snow.



(See more at Andrew Hall's site, where you can purchase or license the high-res versions.)

[VOX]

27. 3 pics of Westwood CA...

Was born and raised in Westwood -- and it's changed mightily, much of it for the worse. It's crowded, traffic is a nightmare. But like so many folks say, it's home. All other places, no matter how beautiful, feel like stopovers.


The Fox Theater, built in 1931. Local legend has it that Robert Redford once shinnied up the spire when he worked as an usher here. Who knows?


Historic Royce Hall on the UCLA campus. Seismically retrofitted after the Northridge quake, it's one of the best smaller venues anywhere -- great acoustics and always a first-class program lineup. (Saw Randy Newman here last Friday night!)

[Richardo]

30. I lived in Westwood from 1974-78: thanks for the pix!

Richardo <--- UCLA '78 :D :thumbsup:

[DoctorBombay]

43. Royce is my favorite venue!

I almost went to see Newman, too!

Saw Elvis Costello there last year and a Rufus Wainwright/Aimee Mann show that just was killer.

[hel]

28. Istanbul

(All images from www.istanbul.com)

[Maine-i-acs]

31. Portland, ME - USA - recent "cold snap" pics

Frozen lobster-boat


Chopping ice off a Coast Guard boat



"Fire and Ice" - putting out fires at 20 below takes some skill. Theyold Masonic Hall was evacuated since the ice-weight aded the risk of the building collapsing.

[banana republican]

32. seattle

Hammering man at the Seattle Art Museum



The Fremont troll under the aurora bridge



Lenin for sale (he has a cash machine in his butt).



finally: THE CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

[rustydog]

36. Great Pix!, Where is Hendrix?

I love playing in Seattle. It is one hell of a town.
Come over the mountains Eastward and bask in Central Washington. Watch out for the Angry Heifers though.

[banana republican]

47. Grew up in E'burg...

rode heifers for fun...

[Kamika]

34. Houston

[Djinn]

39. Melbourne - Australia

This is Melbourne city


and this is my fav spot in Victoria - The Great Ocean Road miles of coast hugging road - built by out of work soldiers after WW1 - backed by temperate rain forest - so beautiful even Mad MAx lived there!

[NashVegas]

37. Nash Vegas

[FarLeftRage]

38. Here T'is

Main Street - Summer time



An outside view of one of the three lakes (Middle) - Fall



Last year's Winter Carnival "Storming of the Ice Palace" - Winter

I am lucky to live in Saranac Lake, New York.

[solinvictus]

40. Chattanooga, Tennessee (from my deck)

As photographed by my wife.

[citizen snips]

42. Some pics of North Carolina.

Charlotte, North Carolina






Raleigh, North Carolina






hatteras lighthouse

[ornotna]

45. South Venice, Fl.

Population - 13,539 (year 2000)
Elevation - 17 feet

My house is located just about in the middle of this picture.

[PhishWithLemon99]

46. Here's Philadelphia...

I live about 75 miles west of Philly, but I go there every week and I'm a part time student at the University of Pennsylvania, so I go there more often than I go the 10 miles into downtown Harrisburg. So it's sort of like home.

This pic was taken right over the Penn campus and shows Franklin Field, the Schuylkill River, and Center City.